Peacebuilding and the Arts

IMPACT is designing infrastructure for the field, a platform for arts, culture and conflict transformation supported in large part by Porticus Community Arts Lab. The planning phase in 2017-19 was supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The "Acting Together" Project is undertaken in partnership with Theatre Without Borders and ReCAST, Inc.

Documentation of the work of Jane Wilburn Sapp — a powerful and highly regarded performer, songwriter, recording artist and educator who engages with disenfranchised urban and rural communities in the United States and around the world.

Inaugurating a new dialogue is an exciting and substantial process, especially when it takes place between entities with aligned ethical and organizational goals: to bring together practitioners from around the world, to support their artistic processes and to enable them to exchange views and opinions, creating an environment of growth and nurturing. Such is the discussion that has started between IMPACT and The Festival Academy, with the participation of Dijana Milošević and Ellada Evangelou (IMPACT) in the Academy's Atelier entitled, — the arts, the artist and the audience.

• Acting Together documentary: "Acting Together on the World Stage" — The 55-minute ATWS documentary highlights stories of nine exemplary peacebuilding performance practitioners and their reflections on key questions and dilemmas from the field.
• Acting Together anthology: "Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict" is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume II focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion.